· Chinua went to the College of Ibadan and then joined a broadcasting company in Lagos. · Chinua didn’t like what Nigeria had become after they had become independent. · Chinua was a teacher and professor for Colleges in Nigeria and USA. · Chinua wrote the novel Things Fall Apart in 1958 · A car crash in 1990 left Chinua in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. · Chinua helped found a literary magazine called Okike. It was a influential magazine at the time. · Chinua used irony in his writing a lot to show tradition and speech. · He wrote about things that bothered him through fictional stories.
Spencer Quinn
· Chinua went to the College of Ibadan and then joined a broadcasting company in Lagos.
· Chinua didn’t like what Nigeria had become after they had become independent.
· Chinua was a teacher and professor for Colleges in Nigeria and USA.
· Chinua wrote the novel Things Fall Apart in 1958
· A car crash in 1990 left Chinua in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
· Chinua helped found a literary magazine called Okike. It was a influential magazine at the time.
· Chinua used irony in his writing a lot to show tradition and speech.
· He wrote about things that bothered him through fictional stories.
Websites:
http://aalbc.com/authors/chinua.htm
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/chinua-achebe
Pictures:
(http://danliterature.wordpress.com/chinua-achebe-no-longer-at-ease/chinua-achebe-things-fall-apart/)
(http://nycphoto.interactivenyc.com/archives/pen_world_write/)
(http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_05/about.html)